track field starts this weekend. i won't be watching anything *BUT* that...though i may try and see a few movies: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Total Recall and Bourne Legacy will be playing here this week and next so i'll try and check them out...

This was an isolated incident in one small town. The world isn't suddenly less safe because of it, so if you want to go to the theater, please do so knowing you'll more than likely have a good time, assuming the movie isn't terrible, that is.

Exactly. It's a tragic anomaly, that's all. The world isn't less safe. There will always be the violently insane, earthquakes, fires etc. But there's a greater chance of dying via car accident. That's not to diminish this tragedy of course

The first film tested really well. Unfortunately for Sommers the phrase "tested better than both Transformer movies combined" got repeated a lot. Suddenly, a rumor appears on Don Murphy's message board that Sommers has been fired and the film is a disaster. It all played out so publicly it was kind of amazing. I've never seen a studio work so hard to sabotage a film in the home stretch.

It was emailed to me and I can't find an external link. It's basically that the WGA has a full MBA deal in place with the "People’s Production Company (PPC), the Amazon affiliate responsible for professional content development and production."

It might help if the WGA were to acknowledge that the amorphous "new media" realm has come a long way since the strike FIVE YEARS AGO. You know, to actually try to fight the studios (and other companies, like Amazon, Netflix, whoever) from treating creatives like slave labor because, "no one knows how to make a profit yet from the internet space." Apparently, all of those ads on Hulu, Youtube, and every other streaming site are purchased with sawdust and dreams.

Seen Kevin Smith's "Red State?" The long epilogue, aka "John Goodman explains what happened in the climax," felt like Kevin Smith was trying to do the Coen Bros. (e.g., ending of No Country). It was awkward. But if this film is Smith's transition into challenging himself to do more complex films, then it's a nice start.

And while we're at it, let's honor TV's mini-version of this scene, which usually begins with the crusty police boss saying, "Let me get this straight. You're tell me a dead body/pound of heroin/bag of gold was found in a school locker/deserted warehouse/clown's anus etc."

Basically, it's a company too cheap to hire staff who wants you to explain your coverage to them so they don't have to read anything. Unpaid but it "could potentially lead to growth within". I love Hollywood.